Describes how students who are learning disabled can improve their writing skills through physical movement and manipulating visuals. Describes how movement draws on kinesthetic intelligence and manipulatives draw on spatial intelligence to help students understand language structures in nonverbal ways that may be more intuitive than verbal…

This tribute to Samuel Kirk, an early leader in the field of learning disabilities, is written by one of his doctoral students. It focuses on his contributions to teacher education and uses a mnemonic device (his name) to summarize contributions related to such areas as scientific inquiry, assessment, mainstreaming, kinesthetic/phonics methods,…